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Hello ALL! It has most certainly been a long time, but I actually have some kind of news today; there is an update of some kind! I'll be honest with everyone; I've been extremely busy these past few months. We've moved into one new home, took a while to set up the new room, and for a minute, everything was good...however, due to circumstances ONCE AGAIN beyond our control, we are forced to relocate yet again. It's a real pain. Actually, this update comes two days before we actually move into the new home, but I wanted some kind of update before I lost internet service...which can be for as short as four days to as long as a month.
I've been busy at work with the technical aspects of the site, only to discover that File Front doesn't appear to have any of my music samples that I've uploaded. Therefore, I had to spend time changing all the links all over the place that were in various articles...which is time that could have been spent making a brand new article in the process. I will now be using MediaFire for the game music samples. Also, due to the increasingly difficult economic times, I've been hard at work trying to make as much money as possible. In fact, I even have a second job (of sorts) on top of all the other various things that I do. While I won't be doing it much until after I re-establish internet connectivity at my new place of residence, I will be an article writer for Examiner.com (for Norfolk). My examiner page is at THIS link, so if you have the time, please stop by my page, click on some of my articles and tell your friends and family about my page. You don't have to buy anything or anything like that, but your clicks will help me earn additional revenue. Your clicks will mean a lot to me. After I move, I will be writing a good deal more articles, but I only have one up at the second.
For those who aren't aware, GS Tube has been absolutely booming! There are plenty of videos there (many of which I would like to make articles for eventually) and videos are frequently added to our database. To our visitors, friends, and subscribers, I would like to express my gratitude for all of your generousity and constructive criticism by saying thank you. It truly does mean a lot to me as well as Bel Cain The Eternal. Once again, thank you very much...and if any of you on YouTube (or this site) have any questions, comments, or concerns, please don't hesitate to ask...and well...urhmmmmm. What else?
AH YES...I would just like to point out the new additions. Puzzle fanatics on a budget can rejoice! Play with the adorable Tia (or Sitora in Japan) in Puzzle Star Sweep and be merry! You can pull off hectic chains and rack up a sweet high score without the high price tag and "fluff". Also, if you don't understand a thing about Aretha for the Super Famicom, I don't blame you; neither did I...or rather, I covered it in such a vague fashion, I didn't necessarily say anything wrong, but I didn't really say much at all. That brings me to another thing; I'm really trying to go back and really PLAY all the RPGs on this site. Some are good, but I've still got too many mini-reviews from my GameFAQs postings. I have nothing against GameFAQs or my postings, but I really need to add meat to those articles, especially if my focus is to cover obscure games in as much detail as I possibly can. Lastly, I've added a few new scans, generally for Playstation stuff (Ghost in the Shell, Mr. Domino, Puzzle Star Sweep, etc.) and as for the videos, it's just easier to visit our YouTube page at this point...there's a lot of stuff in that badboy. Until next time everyone!
Posted By: Vyse the determined
 January 29, 2009
There's not much to say in this one. We've got about eighty percent of our stuff packed up and we've fixed a few more errors on the site. We've added two more links to our links section... well, technically only one. We wanted to get this taken care of before we move for pretty obvious reasons, but we've added GamerFreak, another new video game site that drifts in the vast interlinked hypertext ocean that is the World Wide Web. We'd like to think that you can never have enough. The next link... is the return of the
Video Game Den!!! We were contacted by Laurent Kermel a few days ago about the return of his great site. The references were never taken down, but the links were deactivated, but he has a new host now and you can go there and dance and be merry! Take care everybody, and until we meet again.
Posted By: Vyse the determined
 January 7th, 2009
Wow, a GS update after HOW LONG? This absence was even longer than last years' absence! Many have been curious about what we've been doing and where GS stands right now and we feel you have the right to know as our viewers, so we'll let you know what's been going on.
We've been doing a lot lately, most importantly is packing up for our big move (again). The reason is because we're getting notices for our landlord that hints at the house we're living in being foreclosed. This means we're paying our rent, but we suspect that the owner isn't paying their mortgage... and we want to be safer rather than sorry. We'll likely make our move at the beginning of February, so there may be another absence period (but that doesn't mean we aren't working on the site). We've been slowly packing up all our belongings and tidying up the place, and that's part of the reason we haven't been making regular updates, since we need access to our material for scanning purposes and a whole slew of other reasons. Instead, we've been making videos, since we don't need a lot of material to make them.
With that being said, we've made A LOT of new videos, about three hundred since our last update (*laughs*). That's a lot of hours of footage! Many of the videos are for games we've covered on this site as well as games we plan to cover. We've got the Dazzle up and running, so we can make videos and articles for pretty much anything we want, but we want to polish up the old stuff before we ring in the new. Actually, some people may have noticed, but the site you're viewing right now is "under construction", since we've devised a little code to make the site viewable under what we believe to be any resolution. There are other tweaks in progress as well. We've also been attempting world domination... nah, not really, but we've added a few more links. One of them belongs to an uncommonly polite YouTuber known as psychoapeguy, owner of "A Video Game Website", whose site is very neat and organized. You can find material from a wide range of gaming platforms and it looks like it will become one of the greats with time. Just check out the Astro Robo Sasa (NES) review for an example of what you can expect in terms of form and function. If you like what you see, you can contribute or join the forums.
That's all we can really say for now. We'll still be working on the site regularly, filling in YouTube requests and seldomly hanging out on various forums, but there isn't much more that can be said at the moment. We're looking into a good camera that can record decent footage of the real world and we'll probably come up with a list of all the videos we've made since the last update, but stay tuned! Thanks for the support!
Posted By: Vyse the determined
October 11th, 2008
We are facing some technical RL difficulties at the moment, which will certainly delay any of our updates and our site and YT
progress is slow.
It's nothing life-threatening for certain, but if we take a while to update the site, you'll know why. Also, there are
some things we have to check into. Thanks for understanding.
Posted By: Vyse the determined
 September 27th, 2008
Okay, so we've mostly just chilled the past three weeks since Bel already had a decent little update done. What does it contain? Well, we've covered the "Rocket Knight Adventure" series, which covers three (or 2 and a 1/2, depending on your stance) great games, RKA (the Sega Original), Sparkster Gen and Sparkster SNES, which are pretty much completely different games... ah, the beauty of old games. These days, a lot of system ports of games just have slightly better visuals or some minor addition or goodie, but old game ports sometimes surprised us with completely different games! Speaking of the oldies so to speak, a NosTale forum hotlinked one of our Jajamaru-kun images, giving us about 20,000+ page requests (yikes!). We've been thinking about redirecting it (so it would turn up a blank), but it was being used for constructive purposes. The creators have designed a three-dimensional Jajamaru as a special rank! It would be cool if more MMOs did stuff like that, but we can see why they don't to an extent...
Besides the above, we've done something else this update... we've been making videos. While we've said for a long time that we'd consider it, we've finally put our meager money where our mouth is and, well, made movies (a couple hours worth). To go with our audio samples, we've made video samples, which vary in length, usually between 3-10 minutes each. We may upload more than one video for games (which will be put in our playlists), so these only link you to basic vids, just to see the game in action. The videos we've made are for:
SNES/SFC
Aretha
Aretha II
Battle Tycoon: Flash Hiders SFX
Congo's Caper
Gan Gan Ganchan
Great Battle Gaiden 2
Magical Drop
Magical Drop 2
Melfand Stories
Pieces
Rejoice: Aretha Oukoku no Kanata
Sugoro Quest ++
Super Ninja Kun
Tadaima Yuusha Boshuu Chuu Okawari
Trinea
Yuu Yuu Hakusho Tokubetsu Hen
Genesis/MD
Alisia Dragoon
Dahna Megami Tanjou
High Seas Havoc
Mega Panel
Game Gear
Psychic World
Kaitou Saint Tail
Playstation
Crime Crackers
Crime Crackers 2
Eithea
Hello Kitty's Cube Frenzy
We also have another surprise. While our XP computers have done a nice job so far, we've decided to kick things up an additional notch. Now that there are less concerns about Vista compatibility, I've purchased a brand new computer which has superior performance over the others for some heavy-duty work. I've also bought a dazzle for the consoles that aren't easily emulated (I'm looking at you, 3DO and Philips CD-i), among other things, so we can get even more varied content and get a hell of a lot more done. We can't say what we'll do with all this new tech right away, but we've already got movie editing software (that was too advanced for several applications to run on the old comps) and the like, so we have a lot open to us. We'll be making more movies and the like next update and have no clue what we'll talk about in terms of articles, but we'll be spending some time pimping out the new comp. Finally, thanks for watching (for those curious to hear what we sound like)!
Posted By: Vyse the determined
 September 6th, 2008
What's shaking? Today, we bring you more news from Gaming Sanctuary. It's generally my fault that this update took so long. I've been taking extensive measures with our latest articles and going back and seeing which weird Playstation games made it to the "Playstation Store" on this site. This update is crammed with a few new additions, but before I get to what's new, I have something important to address. There's one other thing I need to point out. The Video Game Den (Ikermel/Laurent Kermel's game website) is currently down. I was first informed of this from the folks over at Blue Rose Video Games weeks ago and was probably one of the first to notice. I won't go into the details as to what transpired, but the site will be down for a while, possibly several months. For this reason, we've deactivated his links (so people don't repeat what BRVG stated), but we aren't taking down any of his banners or references, since we expect him to be back soon and want to show that we care. We hope things get dealt with soon.
By no fault of my own, Bel Cain decided to go back and play the strange arkanoid-style game with light RPG elements, Firestriker for the SNES. He played the game back-to-back with the Japanese version, Holy Striker, added a few audio samples, seventy extra images and the credits. He also wrote an article for the gorgeous-looking Genesis game developed by Data East, High Seas Havoc, Arr! It was also released in the Arcades apparently, but we've yet to devote time to arcade games and numerous other platforms (we want to, but we have certain priorities right now). He's also added some Other News, since we haven't added anything to it in months and people want it back. Finally, Bel has coded in a few tweaks to our links section and added several scans to the Game Memoribalia section (primarily for Playstation), which needed to be updated for a long time. We haven't added all the links we want, but it's certainly a start. Bel Cain is technically already done with another slew of articles already, but he's postponing it mostly to beef up the next update.
As for moi, I've written articles on two interesting Playstation games... you might as well call them a series article since there are only two games in its series. I took a look at Crime Crackers and Crime Crackers 2, two first-person shooter RPGs from the creators of Wild Arms! Crime Crackers was one of the first games ever made for the Playstation and was developed by Media.Vision. It deals with the escapades of Emilia F. Alcanett and her teammates aboard the spaceship code-named Pink Dolphin, and their journey to stop crime and become Cosmic Guardians. The game didn't receive a sequel until three years later, but it was worth the wait, and stars a whole new cast called the Guppy Team, though the original crew appears a few times in the game. The first game is the one we originally had difficulty making an article for because it has a seemingly insurmountable OP CODE error during Act 4, but we found a way to bypass it via a level select code. It's strange because the fourth act is only a short story chapter and there doesn't appear to be anything that should make the game go haywire. By the way, I'm officially sick of RPGs for the time being. Going through both Crime Crackers, Crystal Warriors and Knight Quest has me itching to play something else.
Posted By: Vyse the determined
 August 4th, 2008
Hey everybody. This update is both light and substantial. We won't waste a lot of words this time, so let's get to business. This update is being truncated because we're still waiting for a few games to come in the mail and we need one of them to put together an article. The next update may be altered as well, since we're having technical difficulties with one of our articles. Anyhoo, this update has a nice article on the Atlus-published RPG, Eithea. It's a two-disc game developed by "TamTam", the same folks who developed the strange strategy game, Jyutei Senki for the Super Famicom/ Japanese SNES. Included with this article is loads of scans from the normal game and limited edition version, a few audio samples, a few thousand words describing the game and a whooping 500 extra images. Yeah, it's huge, and we seriously doubt you'll find more screenies for it anywhere on the web. We'll be working on more articles and doing more scans in our next update and probably add a piece to our "Other News" section. Until next time.
Posted By: Bel Cain The Eternal
 July 26th, 2008
Do you believe in magic? Me and Bel sure do. With the news of one life passing from this all too short life of ours, another is born from the proverbial ashes. We recieved news over the week that our first niece was born a day before our birthday and that she's nice and healthy. They're not here with us, but I want to say congats to our older brother and his girl down in NYC. What? You never knew we had an older brother? Well, let me tell you that we have two. Still surprised? Then let us blow your mind by telling you that they are also twins. Our family sure is weird...even a little ecentric. Who cares! Big whoop, wanna fight about it?
First off, the site has been tweaked some more. These changes actually simplify the site, instead of expanding on what was already present. You won't have to worry about pages and the like that you've bookmarked; all the links and such should be intact. Things have been organized more by Bel Cain, which is pretty neat. He's also designed the simple new background that we're using, which is a tad brighter than the old one but still has a darker tone overall. He also spruced up the news and the like which we didn't organize last update, so that's all well and good.
This update covers some Super Famicom games (yeah, it's been a while) that we feel you may take interest in. Chain Reaction is in the house...which is Magical Drop for folks like me who don't go to the arcades that much. Well, you're getting served the first and Magical Drop 2, so bon appetite. We've also finished our article on the strange Rouge-RPG Ascii published, Milandra. It's got something to do with some tower, some princess, some guy called Shairok, Nosferatu, puppet thieves, monkeies named Mephisto, blibitty blah. You know, it's supposed to be one of the "creepier" RPGs on the system along with Rapurasu no Ma...aw, forget it. You'll get a better understanding of the game if you read the article, cuz we suck at making Earth-shattering news. As usual, we're going back and spicing up older articles when we get the time, because it's the cool thing to do. We have a revised article for Congo's Caper, aka Tatakae Genshijin 2, aka Caveman Ninja 2, aka Joe and Mac 2: NOT LOST IN THE TROPICS AND NOT STARRING JOE OR MAC. We got up a few scans up too, though they aren't anything to important. As always, take care everybody. Until we meet next.
Posted By: Vyse the determined
 July 9th, 2008
Hello again everyone. We want to keep this brief because this isn't a good time for us. A relative within our family has passed away, which is why we've hardly been online. She was a good person...and one of many people that our nephew looked up to. We can honestly say that it hasn't impacted us directly, but it has indirectly, because we never knew much about this person he looked up to, but whenever he asks us about her, we can't help but feel sorry for him and those that suffered. He's too young to understand right now, but he will soon enough.
This update includes two great Sega Genesis/Mega Drive articles revolving around Battle Mania and Battle Mania Daiginjou, a.k.a Trouble Shooter and unofficially Trouble Shooter Vintage to the English speaking folks. We've also got a Playstation article for the strange game, Shake Kids, where a cocktail shaker is your weapon against evil. Bel Cain has also done some great revisions and editing for the following articles: Bubble and Squeak, Chiki Chiki Boys, Elemental Master, and Marko. Oh, and a special thanks to Video Game Central and the Icy Forums for wishing us a happy b-day a few hours ahead of time and for the anonymous birthday cake in our inbox. We won't have to worry about Alzheimer's Disease for many years, but we're glad someone wants to fight it anyway. It makes us feel a little better. We had a lot more planned, but we'll just tack the additions on as time goes by. Look forward to some cool stuff in the future everybody.
Posted By: Vyse the determined
 June 16th, 2008
And so we meet again! Greetings to everyone, Vtd in the house! Do you celebrate Father's Day? If you do, I hope you got your pops something good. I won't lie to you...me and Bel usually don't get him anything special because, well, none of us guys in the family really expect big presents and stuff, and there's five of us in all (no girls...weird). We don't really think it's a big deal...this time is different though. Our mother kept badgering us to get him something nice since he's sixty years old this year, so we HAD to get him something nice. I hope he appreciates it...we're broke, and it cost a couple hundred dollars. We're pretty sure mother dearest will want something nice and expensive too since she'll turn fifty only two weeks later...but what's money when you have family, right? I sometimes wish I was the Grinch! Seriously though, we wouldn't be here today if it weren't for them and we never would've been hardcore gamers too I guess...might've taken up sports or gymnastics or something. On that note, we'd do everything within our power (and budget) for them! [/mushy praise]
Anyhoo, as promised, we've gotten a little quicker about these updates. In this update, the lover and the fighter in us made us write about the Playstation release of Taito's Arcade-style dating-sim, Magical Date. We also decided to finish up an article we had on freeze for over a month...primarily because we didn't have the will to finish it. Speaking of "will", that's the name of the hero for our next game, Knight Quest. Coincidence? They're both good articles. We also finished uploading all our Kensei Sacred Fist videos as requested on YouTube, so have at them! We'd also like to answer a question we received through e-mail about videos for the reviews we have. We will slowly be making videos for the games on the site and possibly link one for each game. We only have a video for Dragonseeds, Magical Date, SCD Terminator, and a game we'll be talking about in the near future, but we'll have more, rest assured. We'll continue to make tweaks here and there, add more scans and illustrations, and most likely have another update before the end of the month, maybe even two, but don't quote us on the latter. Peace!
Posted By: Vyse the determined
 June 5th, 2008
We're back! We've been through a lot over the past month. Me and Vyse have dusted off our Paypal account, which hasn't been used in over a year. The reason? We've been earning a little more money lately. Of course, the majority of it goes to paying bills...but we have a little extra to allocate towards games. We've covered a portion of the Japanese and PAL games that we have, so we're making sure we have plenty to work with so we don't run out of things to talk about anytime soon. We can't tell you what we bought...that would take the fun of it. All we can say is that we have picked up a few gems and uber-rare games.
In any event, the more important news...my computer broke down while I was adding material to the site. The hard drives are fine, but the motherboard is toast...warm, buttery toast. I transfered my work to Vyse's computer and have more or less taken a break from programming. I'll probably install Windows 2000, XP or dare I say Vista onto one of the smaller hard drives and get back to work in early June. We've gotten a lot accomplished in this update though. I've added over 500 new images to older articles and expanded the content slightly. This covers The Krion Conquest (NES/FC), Alisia Dragoon (GEN/MD), Dahna Megami Tanjou (GEN/MD), Magical Taruruuto-kun (GEN/MD), Syd of Valis (GEN/MD) and Twinkle Tale (GEN/MD). You'll be able to look at those much-needed additional screenies as well as check out the whole article redesign, which has hit nearly every article on the site. Things just keep getting better and better...
Vyse has been doing a lot of work too. He's gotten some more outside assistance, getting some cool scans from scir of GameFAQs (scir91 on YouTube) and has been contacting folks to get some really rare game-related crap. With the scans, scir has also contributed his spirited Rad Racer article for NES. Speaking of contributions, the contributor section has gotten updated. Major contributors will be highlighted in the contributor section. We haven't worked out all the details, but we are going to make links to their work (if necessary) for the time being. It will likely be adjusted in the future. Next, Vyse has made some interesting new articles. He's finished Factory Panic, the Game Gear game that has a little more under the hood than one might suspect. In addition to that, we'll also be taking a look at Crystal Warriors, the predecessor to the excellent "Royal Stone", and Nail 'n Scale, the monster slaying game where you can climb walls and jump off of thin air. This update is chuck full of so much material, we had to throw some by the wayside to get this update out. In any event, I can't tell you what lies ahead, but with all the new import games Vyse ordered from all across the globe (this includes a PAL release or two), we're just as excited as our fans are! It should be noted that updates will be more frequent (hooray!) in the coming days. Until next time!
Posted By: Bel Cain The Eternal
 May 1st, 2008
Greetings y'all! We've been pretty busy last month, so we couldn't get as many site related activities done as we wanted. You know that saying "April showers brings May flowers"? Well, we definitely had our share of showers down here in VA (Virginia). Not only that, we got hit by several very nasty tornadoes estimated to be roughly category three (or even CATEGORY FOUR)...so talk about devastation. The damage is quite extensive and between the whole "Election 08" matter and everything else that's wrong with this world, those suffering from this natural disaster aren't getting the attention they deserve. Of course, those of us who live in the United (Recession) States of America probably don't see this as anything new. We just try to lighten the mood by bringing joy and relief to those in the best way we know how: Through hardcore gaming.
Vtd and I have increased our YouTube portfolio by over fifty percent...or in other words, we've made roughly fifty new videos. What? You say that doesn't sound like much? Perhaps, but we've got a life too...wait, WHAT??? You say you didn't know we even HAVE a YouTube channel? Wow...well, I can't say we advertise our site very well. You can check us out on YouTube too, where we have interesting video intros and endings, a few sick level runs and much more to come in the future. Additionally, we have one new article for the SNES that consist of two games. We take an extensive look at The Jetsons: Invasion of the Planet Pirates which has an unusual connection to Kadokawa Shoten and Sting when combined with it's Japanese counterpart, Youkai Buster Ruka no Daibouken. It's a pretty lengthy, though interesting read. Also, JJ Hendricks of Video Game Price Charts was kind enough to add a link to our site and stated that he feels that many of his readers would like our site. Thanks JJ! As courtesy, his site link can be found on the bottom of this page as well. It's almost like the stock market for video games. You can see the rise and fall of game value as times change and things appreciate and depreciate. It's pretty neat.
One last note: We've been adjusting all our articles and experimenting with new article designs as well as developing a site mascot (an original one that will be used in certain instances). Our new article designs haven't spanned the whole site yet, but you'll see what we mean if you read our latest article. Let us know what you think! Later!
Posted By: Bel Cain The Eternal
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